Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A group of British reporters once asked a friend of Mahatma Gandhi how it was that Gandhi was able to speak so eloquently and at such length without any prepared notes. The friend, Mahadev Desai, ...

The spiritual poverty of the Western world is much greater than the physical poverty of our people. You in the West have millions of people who suffer such terrible loneliness and emptiness.

Susan Pitchford makes a good pitch for leading a spiritual life of poverty and joy — without having to go broke or laughing all the way to bankruptcy. The author and sociologist’s approach to ...